Posted in 2020

AiiDAlab paper published

The paper providing comprehensive information on the architecture and design philosophy of the AiiDAlab web platform was published:

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Paper describing AiiDA’s workflow engine published

The paper describing the details of AiiDA’s workflow engine has been published today: M. Uhrin et al, Workflows in AiiDA: Engineering a high-throughput, event-based engine for robust and modular computational workflows, Comp. Mat. Sci. 187, 110086 (2021)

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Paper describing AiiDA’s workflow engine published

The paper describing the details of AiiDA’s workflow engine has been published today:

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Two 4-year postdoctoral positions (Marzari@EPFL)

There are two positions for computational materials scientist/software scientists immediately available in our laboratory for Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL. The two positions, for up to 4 years each, are dedicated to data analytics, data integration, and simulation/machine-learning workflows, and are supported by the new H2020 projects DOME4.0 and OpenModel.

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AiiDA v1.4.0 released

This is the fourth minor version of the v1 series and comes with some important performance improvements and features, but also various bug fixes. This is the last version to support Python 3.5.

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AiiDA and Materials Cloud papers published in Nature’s Scientific Data

The new paper on AiiDA (describing all the work happened in the past 4+ years) and the paper describing the Materials Cloud (an Open Science Platform designed to enable the seamless sharing of resources in computational materials science) have been published on the Nature’s journal Scientific Data.

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Report on the 2020 AiiDA virtual tutorial

Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s edition of the AiiDA tutorial was organised in an entirely virtual format, which gave us the opportunity to expand our admittance to a truly global audience. In total, we accepted 85 participants from 30 countries and 13 different time zones. Incorporating this wide range of time zones presented an interesting challenge, and so we decided to split participants into two groups, running duplicate hands-on sessions for each group at different times of the day.

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AiiDA v1.3.0 released

A new AiiDA release v1.3.0 is available! You can find more information at our download page. It can be installed through pip as:

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AiiDA Virtual Tutorial July 2020

The AiiDA team is pleased to announce details for our annual tutorial week!

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Documentation revamp, and more than 50 registered plugins

We are thrilled to announce a comprehensive revamp of the AiiDA documentation.

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AiiDA tutorial at Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania)

This 3-day tutorial is designed to get about 40 students and researchers from the field of computational materials science started with writing reproducible workflows. Participation both from academia and from industry is encouraged.

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Newly-engineered Materials Cloud Archive

We would like to announce the launch of a newly engineered Materials Cloud Archive, now powered by the same Invenio framework as the massive Zenodo repository at CERN.

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2020 Questionnaire results - AiiDA papers & testimonials

Find them on the new science page where we plan to collect future survey results and keep track of publications using AiiDA.

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AiiDA v1.2.0 released

A new AiiDA release v1.2.0 is available! You can find more information at our download page. It can be installed through pip as:

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Pre-prints of upcoming AiiDA & Materials Cloud papers now available

After five years of continued development since the first AiiDA paper it was time to sit down and recap how AiiDA has evolved. You can read a pre-print of the upcoming paper on AiiDA 1.0 at Huber, S.P. et al., arXiv:2003.12476 (2020).

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AiiDA tutorial @ Vilnius University

An introductory tutorial to AiiDA will take place from the 7th to the 10th of July 2020 at Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania).

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AiiDA at Google Summer of Code 2020

Thanks to the folks at NumFOCUS, AiiDA is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2020 under the NumFOCUS umbrella for the first time.

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Notes from AiiDA hackathon on plugin and workflow development

The AiiDA hackathon held at CINECA from February 17th-21st 2020 featured a number of presentations and discussion sessions on topics relevant to plugin and workflow development.

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AiiDA v1.1.1 released

A new AiiDA release v1.1.1 is available! You can find more information at our download page. It can be installed through pip as:

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AiiDA v1.1.0 released

A new AiiDA release v1.1.0 is available! You can find more information at our download page.

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AiiDA becomes NumFOCUS affiliated project

We are excited to announce that AiiDA has joined the ranks of NumFOCUS affiliated projects!

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AiiDA Hackathon: developing code plugins and robust scientific workflows @ Cineca, Bologna, Italy

The hackathon will take place from February 17 to 21 at Cineca: Via Magnanelli, 6/3, 40033 Casalecchio di Reno, Italy.

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